Just reviewed all the info from our eyewitness, and this is the only thing I found that we may not have discussed much? This was why she thought there could have been a party, while I always wondered if it could have been the actual spend-the-night-here-pitstop.

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after the first two teams came in, we decided to walk around. behind the big building, directly behind the lenin statue, there's a really amazing pavillion - i suppose you'd call it - with tons of beautiful statues and fountains and buildings. one particular one, at the very back, had epic carvings all over the walls. i had to go to the bathroom so i wondered inside looking for a loo. i nice young guys stopped me saying that i couldnt' go in as they were planning a big party. i asked if it was for the amazing race and he smirked and said it's confidential.

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Just reviewed all the info from our eyewitness, and this is the only thing I found that we may not have discussed much? This was why she thought there could have been a party, while I always wondered if it could have been the actual spend-the-night-here-pitstop.

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after the first two teams came in, we decided to walk around. behind the big building, directly behind the lenin statue, there's a really amazing pavillion - i suppose you'd call it - with tons of beautiful statues and fountains and buildings. one particular one, at the very back, had epic carvings all over the walls. i had to go to the bathroom so i wondered inside looking for a loo. i nice young guys stopped me saying that i couldnt' go in as they were planning a big party. i asked if it was for the amazing race and he smirked and said it's confidential.

I wouldn't be surprised if this happens at the deciding point for the finale three for each leg. A way for the racers to celebrate their success or like in Season 4 so goodbye to the 4th placed team. If so then damn I don't think I would want to be there this season.

Its something you might want to ask them (and past season racers) at TAR CON.

Okay, long time lurker that has finally decided to bust out of the shadows. You all are fantastic, shall I say Amazing?

My contribution to this mindblowing episode is to take a step back and stop overthinking and reaching. Most prefer Dandrew to be eliminated so we've been looking for ways to make that happen. The simple fact is that Toni and Dallas haven't been spotted in Portland making them "ultimately" unable to cross the finish or so it appears.

Again fantastic job, season after season, to the super sleuths of RFF.

I believe there were no sightings of N/S either. So maybe T/D and N/S came in earlier than the cameras came so they were not sighted and K/T were so far behind this leg that they came in on a later flight with DanDrew.

Did you ever get a feel for how much later than the others D/A were checking in last week? Even I could tell the light was later.

Ken & Tina's check in time was 6:30 pm plus or minus 30 min.

Dandrew's check in time was 8:00 pm plus or minus 30 min.

Chateau, I am not questioning those estimates. However, both of them are well after the "drop-dead" time needed to make the 705am flight unless there was a pitstop of less than 12 hours. We know that leg 10 was run May 13 and we know that leg 11 for the competing teams was May 14 in Portland.

apskip, those are the check in times for last week's mat, I was trying to figure out how far behind D/A will be at the release this week.

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Chateau, I am not questioning those estimates. However, both of them are well after the "drop-dead" time needed to make the 705am flight unless there was a pitstop of less than 12 hours. We know that leg 10 was run May 13 and we know that leg 11 for the competing teams was May 14 in Portland.

I'm lousy at figuring out what day it is halfway around the world, but do the dates above account for that?

I believe there were no sightings of N/S either. So maybe T/D and N/S came in earlier than the cameras came so they were not sighted and K/T were so far behind this leg that they came in on a later flight with DanDrew.

i dont think so because if you look in a picture you can see that all the teams catched on the detour/roadblock, i belive dandrew have not done there speedbump

Okay, long time lurker that has finally decided to bust out of the shadows. You all are fantastic, shall I say Amazing?

My contribution to this mindblowing episode is to take a step back and stop overthinking and reaching. Most prefer Dandrew to be eliminated so we've been looking for ways to make that happen. The simple fact is that Toni and Dallas haven't been spotted in Portland making them "ultimately" unable to cross the finish or so it appears.

Again fantastic job, season after season, to the super sleuths of RFF.

We are not really in denial, we are just trying to come up with possible ways for Dallas and Toni to make the final 3. After all, Dan and Andrew losing their passports would be the perfect ending to their storyline. As for me, I'm hanging on to the fact that BVM loves to jerk us around. He (and Phil) never came out and said that the team that doesn't make it to the finish line is one of the final 3. So I'm holding out hope that Dan and Andrew lost their documents and were eliminated in Moscow, and that their new documents arrived too late to get them to the finish line when the teams came in (but in time to do some decoy work). We will know soon enough.